Rafael Ferrer, Puerto Rican Musician-Turned-Artist, Has Died at 93

Puerto Rican musician-turned-artist Rafael Ferrer has died at age 93, El Museo del Barrio announced last night. Ferrer was “a groundbreaking artist whose singular and influential practice challenged boundaries” across a vast range of mediums and disciplines, stated the New York museum.In fact, Ferrer first worked as a jazz drummer before moving into visual arts after discovering Surrealist artists and writers during a 1954 trip to Paris. He eventually studied painting with the exiled